points by palata 8 hours ago | 0 comments
In practice, right now, they don't. I hope they will, obviously.
Then about inequalities... you don't run an open model on an affordable RaspberryPi. The more money you have, the more you can leverage AI. Open weights or not.
[–] slopinthebag 7 hours ago
[–] palata 4 hours ago
> what do you mean they don't in practice?
In practice most people don't use open models?
[–] slopinthebag 33 minutes ago
because it's cheap to use closed models, but if they became more expensive the open models are right there.
one example i've seen is modders using AI to bring back older games that ip laws are killing. the whole stop killing games movement will be made obsolete soon when modders can simply produce working, open source versions of these games.
and you dont need to run models locally, you just need competition in the provider market. and we can see this in action - go look at how many providers serve deepseek, all at competitive prices.